{
  "id": 4706185,
  "title": "Automated wildlife re-identification by merging information from multiple body parts: A case study in sea turtles",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/automated-wildlife-re-identification-by-merging-information-from",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.28.747856v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Wildlife re-identification (re-ID) is a widely used and powerful tool with diverse applications in animal ecology and conservation. Current automated methods typically operate on single images of a single body part of the animal. However, a single encounter may contain multiple images capturing different body regions, each providing complementary individual-specific information. In contrast to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}